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Farley McGill Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, on 12 May 1921, the son of Angus McGill and Helen E. Thomson Mowat. Educated in public schools in Ontario and Saskatchewan, he completed his B.A. a...
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Farley Mowat is considered by many to be "Canada's most famous author of nature lore," according to John Bemrose writing in Maclean's. With nearly forty published books and fourteen million copies of ...
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"I was conceived in a green canoe on the Bay of Quinte and born in a taxi between Trenton and Belleville."1An auspicious beginning for a man who would spend much of his life moving around. "I grew up ...
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